CentOS 6.4 (x86_64) - Release Media
CentOS.org | 6.4 - 2013-03-09Linux/Unix, CentOS 6.4 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
CentOS rocks!
I have one instance that runs postfix mail server, LAMP stack, and when needed a RED5 streaming media server. All components are compatible and I don't think the server ever reboot on its own. There are security patches available, and the CentOS community does not deprecate or "discontinue" patches and bug fixes for older OS the way some of the other community OS do (did someone say Ubuntu?) . The most amazing part is its a micro instance and I've been running it this way for years. Totally awesome!
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Amazon offers great and affordable start for small projects!
I was about to put my skills to test in circumstances close to real. As far as that all I need was a real server with static IP, but I had no spare money to spend on such a thing as self-education. I had nothing better then noisy PC set up with dynamic DNS. But that was power draining, annoying and unstable solution.
Thanks to Amazon, now I have some free place to store and test my projects on and I'm really looking forward to continue after my free year will be over, as even small paid account is cheaper than common VPS rent prices. Amazon have plenty of tools, useful for both learning and small business and keeps growing.
Amazon is Amazing !!! Rented 5 servers for 6hrs only $1.48
I wanted to play with high end servers for testing softwares and don't wanted to buy. Figured out amazon AWS is the best place to do that. This is one of the kind where you can buy services and rent hourly. It is affordable. Rented 5 servers for 6hrs only $1.48.
Fast and easy
It's very fast and easy. The SO is running without issues. I'll certainly recommend this product to each others.
Great base install
This image contains only the bare minimum to start to configure your own system, as you wish. Within few minutes you can configure it as a web server or an application server or whatever you want.
Top of the Line Server!
CentOS is based on Red Hat Linux and is practically the same save for a few logos. This AMI is the minimum distribution - which is my preferred method of installing CentOS. I'm currently using it on this instance to provide DNS, Email, and Website Services with Named, Postfix/Dovecot, and NginX respectively.
Also, don't forget the CentOS is OpenSource and absolutely free!!!
Excellent Product marred by a Marketplace Issue
There are no problems with this product in itself. We sought a verifiable CentOS with known contents from a known provider, ideally the maintainer directly, and this appears to be it.
However the product is marred by a problem with marketplace. This is a free product, offered through the marketplace, however marketplace is designed for "paid" products. Consequently the marketplace images -- including the free ones -- have digital rights management encoded in them.
The result is that EBS volumes from the product cannot be recovered and remounted without special help from marketplace technical support. This caused us significant problems in a recovery scenario. The marketplace staff were great, the end result was OK, but a process that should have taken 20 minutes took a full day, which is problematic.
We hope that AWS Marketplace will be upgraded to make the no-copy DRM optional for Marketplace providers so that no-charge images can be verified but remountable in a recovery scenario
Good solid release of a Linux server that gives you all the pros of RHEL without the lockdown and lockin of RHEL
CentOS is a great release for building various kinds of Linux servers if you are comfortable with using and deploying RPM-based Linux. I am also a huge fan of Ubuntu Servers, so I am very well aware of the choices out there in Debian-land. CentOS should really be your only other choice outside of Debian-based distros. Even Solaris11 is not as easy to administer as CentOS.
Be sure to choose the "minimal" release which contains only 200 packages, so it comes ready to be morphed into different kinds of roles easily. Add the EPEL repo to this Linux as soon as it's up and running and you get access to an even wider array of RPMs than the default CentOS repos, finding even more ready to install packages as easy as "yum install package". RPM-packaging has been improved dramatically in the 6.x releases, especially if you want to roll your own packages using rpm tools.
Puppet Enterprise runs great on this release as well and there are a lot of Puppet modules already available to help you get your server profiled into what you want it to do. I have yet to see this version of Linux fall short of being able to be built up into what you want for a Linux machine. It runs great on AWS's micro or any other server with a really sweet, small footprint.
The added benefit of being able to stay up-to-date and not having to incur RHEL Licensing woes but still be "RHEL compatible" means never having to say you're sorry you left RHEL.
RHEL also makes it impossible to jump from one major version to another, such as in updating from 5.x to 6.x, there is no upgrade path, you either re-image your machine or stay stuck in the past. CentOS is just one constant pleasure to work with and doesn't have these issues.
I highly recommend this release of Linux if you want a really rock-solid release of Linux for servers.
CentOS forever!
I like this OS. Always use it. Very convenient, simple and easy to setup. Cannot tell much bout it. Just highly recommend it to others.
Totally satisfied
I have not been using this installation for long by now but I can already say that I am happy with it.
It comes with a minimum set of istalled software which is very good so you just add only something that you need.
The only problem I faced is that opposite to RHEL when I increased root storage size (EBS) during start-up process it didn't increase the partition size automatically so I had to run resize2fs /dev/... (but it took me 5 minutes to Google it).